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by nandemo 14y ago
I see. Thanks.
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by nandemo 14y ago
There's no reference to "rockstar" in that ad. They seem to have set a somewhat high bar, but I can't see how that equates to looking for "rockstars".
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by nandemo 14y ago
Not only it's on-topic, it's even more amusing. At some point one of the teams was trying to score +1, but as the time passed it became safer to score -1 for a chance of +2 later; after deciding on scoring -1, the situation sort of reversed
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don't know Common Lisp either but if you know any Lisp it's quite readable. I'll guess an explanation (without looking at any docs) and let the real lispers correct me. substitute traverses the list sequence replace any element equal
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by nandemo 14y ago
Thanks. That's much more interesting and informative than the post in question and the comments in this thread.
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by nandemo 14y ago
There were severe technical problems in Nasdaq's trading system during the IPO: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/06/nasdaq-outlines...
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by nandemo 14y ago
Nitpick: when you're raising $8.6M you're not taking a ridiculous risk, your investors are. Arguably you then have less risk, e.g. you can reliably draw a salary for several years even if your company isn't yet profitable.
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's one thing to say that we shouldn't place so much importance in diplomas in the context of hiring. It's quite another thing to claim that "really smart hackers" will be bored if they take Computer Science at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxf
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with anything I said... when I wrote binary packages, I meant gitit's. If you just want to use it, you don't need need any dev libs.
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by nandemo 14y ago
If you just want to install the binaries, look for a binary package (Ubuntu's got one, so Fedora might have one too). If you really want to install from source, try cabal-dev (worked for me, see my other comment) or virtualhenv.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hmm, I don't think that's the case. Could you elaborate on why you think ghc's version is the culprit? I've just built gitit using cabal-dev and ghc 7.0.3. So more likely it's just an old case of "cabal hell".
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by nandemo 14y ago
So by eating meat I'm an accomplice in crimes worse than the Holocaust, the atomic bombs, the Soviet gulags, the Rwandan genocide, 9/11 and so on?
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by nandemo 14y ago
Wow. That's a lot of words for what's essentially just a back-of-the-envelope estimate. Besides, claiming that the fair value is $10 but you should only buy at $5 is really odd. You must be extremely risk averse to require a 100%/year retur
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by nandemo 14y ago
For what is worth, the job_seekers/opening ratio is usually published by the same agencies that provide unemployment rates. For instance, a quick search reveals that ratio was 3.5 in the US in May 2012 (down from 4.5 one year before), while
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by nandemo 14y ago
(typo. I mean "so the price I paid last week was fair")
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by nandemo 14y ago
As far as Zynga stock owners and traders are concerned, it is by definition a surprise. If the loss had been expected then the price would have gone down earlier. Alternatively, one could argue "hey, I knew that a large loss was possible, b
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by nandemo 14y ago
Damn, does that mean the ML and NLP classes will probably start at the same time? I want to take both, but not at the same time.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Not sure if I understand your suggestion... I suppose if one wants to write server-side code in a Haskell-ish language then one would simply use standard Haskell plus Yesod or another web framework.
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Fay -- A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to Javascript(chrisdone.com)
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hmm, I don't think that's a fair representation of what Taleb wrote. Dentistry is just a profession he chose to illustrate his point. A stereotype. And the point is not so much the high expected value of a dentist's income, it's the very lo
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by nandemo 14y ago
Ola, Andrew. I think your assumption that weird HR policies imply the company is bad is unfortunately incorrect. I say "unfortunately" because I wish it were true, since I wish could follow your advice and simply avoid companies with doubtf
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Because the women already in tech are very good, their companies are much more stable and profitable than the companies men start. This is interesting, can you provide us a citation?
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by nandemo 14y ago
> I think the evidence is pretty clear. Uh? The 3 excerpts you quote say 3 different things.
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by nandemo 14y ago
In Tokyo I've seen people cycling while: - texting - holding up an umbrella. Very common. - smoking (exercising is good for you, I guess it cancels out the health hazards of smoking...) - "walking" (cycling?) a dog with a
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by nandemo 14y ago
There was an AMA thread on Reddit from a girl who couldn't feel physical pain. I can't find the link with (maybe she deleted it?) but I recall she did feel emotional pain.
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by nandemo 14y ago
There are about 15 national holidays in Japan. Also, if you stay at the same company (which most people tend to do if they can) you're entitled to an additional vacation day every year up to 20 days. So a person with a 5-year tenure will ha
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's almost correct! Just replace "costs" with "outgoing cash", cross out "not including your salaries" (if you pay yourself a salary in cash, it is by definition included in "outgoing cash"), and replace "revenues" with "incoming cash".
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by nandemo 14y ago
> So why do people pay for 'free' information? (and yes some don't, this isn't a piracy discussion). Given these sorts of questions I've been working on what it is that gives information value. What are the economics of information? Of
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by nandemo 14y ago
You've written a very elaborate reply that still fails to point out why astine's simpler explanation (i.e. standard supply-and-demand) doesn't apply. After all, other things being equal, at a fixed price there will more supply for service X
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by nandemo 14y ago
I think "you have to pay competitively" is true and pretty much negates the claim that financial compensation is low priority.

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